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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1898
Page
4
A New York Sun report recounts gas company crews chasing overdue accounts. Gas men face abuse and threats while enforcing meters, often paying customers settle after tense confrontations, leaving officials wary yet persistent in collecting seven to eight dollar debts.
Edmund Carey of Benton, an early Wilkes-Barre resident, born August 12, 1822 on a farm at the town’s lower edge later named Carey avenue. His father George Carey helped open early anthracite coal shipping in Wyoming Valley and attempted raft shipments in 1815 and 1820, selling 40 tons in 1815 for $10 before abandoning coal transport after failed sales and a dramatic halt to the region’s coal market.
A Toledo woman with little diplomatic experience visits Washington for a month to study high society. She attends the annual charity ball and, upon seeing a guest in a low necked dress, learns she is the wife of a minister. The remark highlights social contrasts observed during her stay.
The New York Press outlines three placer mining methods pan ning rocking and sluicing. Panning uses a shallow iron or copper dish to separate gold from gravel while rocking and sluicing improve efficiency with specialized gear. Sluicing, the fastest method, employs boxes with slats and gratings along a water powered sluice to concentrate gold in a pay dirt flow.
Pantaloon goods available at assorted prices and Smyrna rugs listed at 80 cents each, indicating a department store or market sale segment.
A Southern State Yacm Magazine excerpt argues that enslaved and free Black workers in the cotton belt possess expert farming skills under capable managers. It claims eliminating Negro labor would collapse global textile supply, threaten New England and European spindle and loom operations, and disrupt worldwide commerce.
A veteran photographer recounts using a homemade developer blending washing soda and sulphite of soda to calibrate plate development. He notes hydrometer tests at 30 and 40 degrees and adding 8 grains of pyro per 8 ounces of solution for properly exposed plates.
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